181 Quotes by Kevin Mitnick

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company’s internal jargon.

But a lot of businesses out there don’t see the return on investment, they look at it as a liability, and until they can understand that proactive security actually returns, gives them a return on investment, it’s still a hard sell for people.

I’m still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.

It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was – and is – respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I’m trying to be now, I’m trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government’s false claims.

The perfect PIN is not four digits and not associated with your life, like an old telephone number. It’s something easy for you to remember and hard for other people to guess.

Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me.

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.